“I gave blood, sweat and tears to this country for 20 years to continue service to the federal government, doing what I was trained to do by them,” he says. “I kind of feel like I was just thrown out like a piece of trash.” A military vet and a scientist were securing America’s food…

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring the growing bird flu outbreak, Politico reports. Trump Firings Impact ‘Front Line of Surveillance’ for Bird Flu Outbreak https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-firings-bird-flu-surveillance-1235269620

While air traffic controllers were supposedly immune from the purge, some air traffic control support workers were terminated, the FAA worker says. Rolling Stone separately spoke with a fired FAA employee whose job involved ensuring flight paths account for hazards like cranes and new buildings, as well as another terminated FAA staffer who ensured that…

They don’t want to say it’s Elon Musk because Elon Musk has no legal authority. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have repeatedly affirmed Musk’s leadership of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But according to a new court filing from the White House, the administrator of DOGE isn’t Elon Musk after all. Who is? No one knows.…

The former employee said they were let go because of “inadequate performance” despite having received “exceptional” performance reviews from supervisors. The employee, who had been with the EPA since the summer, had moved their entire family to Chicago for the job. “I’m a disabled vet and the only thing I ever asked for from this…

This week, the three sources told NBC News, career employees at high managerial levels, namely Senior Executive Service and General Schedule 15 employees, may be removed from agencies across DHS — not to reduce the size of the workforce but to remove employees whom the administration sees as potentially standing in the way of goals…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired “several” agency employees who are working on the federal government’s response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings. USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying…

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to three people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency. Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at…

ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one. We have received hundreds of tips from readers. Many have helped us identify the people helping Musk, who has not been elected to any office, force out…

9 Fatal Crashes Since January 20 0 for the preceding 16 years The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control…